Mr. Burgess has gone to Pennsylvania & circle met at Mrs. Burgess’. We all went. General rejoicing among loyal people over the election returns. Brough will have sixty thousand majority on the home vote. The soldiers vote will be almost entirely for Brough. Pennsylvania & Iowa voted on the 13th and have gone largely Union.
Note:
John Brough (rhymes with “ruff”) was elected Governor of Ohio on a pro-Union ticket after giving a strongly Union speech in Marietta on June 10, 1863. He supported the anti-slavery movement that the Civil War effort was taking.
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